Não verás "Brasil" nenhum : literatura distópica e direitos humanos através de Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

Abstract

The Master’s research here presented aims to investigate connections between the fields of Literature and Law, based on the book “Não verás país nenhum”, written by Ignacio de Loyola Brandão. The novel lies in an undefined apocalyptic future, in the city of São Paulo, degraded by an environmental crisis yielded by the “Esquema”, an authoritarian and violent system of power that persecutes the population. The book is narrated in the first person by Souza, a former professor who was forced to retire and became aware of the current situation after noticing a strange hole in his hand. The plot has many aspects from dystopian narratives, so that the dystopia emerges as an analytical themed category of labor. The research consists of investigating which elements characterize the work as a dystopia and how this category relates to human rights in the Brazilian context. The main hypothesis is that the elements of dystopias that affect liberty (of choice, movement, idea, expression) and that violate the fundamental rights to a dignified existence (human beings dignity) are present in the corpus; such factors are structured through the space that establish the dystopian environment. Therefore, the interchange between fiction and reality is proposed – Literature and human rights – upon the admission of a bibliographical and qualitative research’s methodology. The theoretical scope of this investigation derives from the concepts of Candido (2011), Godoy (2011), Karam (2017), Mittica (2015) and Trindade (2023), regarding the links established between the literary studies and Law; as for the dystopia, the concepts of Baccolini (2003), Clayes (2017) and Moylan (2023) will be important. In conclusion, the relationship between power and human rights will be considered according to the studies of Arendt (2012), Bobbio (1992), Kant (1989) and Piovesan (2004).